Yellow weather warning issued for Perth and Kinross, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Angus with Met Office advising people to prepare torches, batteries and mobile phone power packs amid flooding risk
Britons have been urged to stockpile crucial supplies following a yellow weather alert for rainfall. Residents across four regions have been advised they may want to assemble vital items including torches and batteries.
The alert covering Perth and Kinross, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Angus runs from 10pm this evening until 9am the following day. Cautioning about possible electricity outages, the Met Office stated: “People cope better with power cuts when they have prepared for them in advance. It’s easy to do; consider gathering torches and batteries, a mobile phone power pack and other essential items.”
Flooding of a “few homes and businesses” is “likely” according to the Met Office, alongside disruption to bus and train services.
“Further rain will fall over eastern Scotland onto already saturated ground which may cause further disruption and localised flooding. 10-15mm of rain is likely to fall quite widely with 25-30mm over higher ground,” the Met Office stated. “This rainfall will combine with melting of lying snow which will further add to to the flood risk and saturation of the ground,” reports the Mirror.
Charts from WXCharts reveal precipitation moving across much of the nation on Tuesday, with more intense downpours affecting the Midlands, the southeast and southern Wales. Current meteorological forecasts suggest scattered showers will affect most regions throughout the day, before becoming more severe around 9pm that evening.
A band of rainfall sweeps across the UK, delivering up to 2mm per hour in Belfast, whilst heavier downpours along Wales’s northern coastline reach 4mm per hour, with similar intensity observed in Stoke-on-Trent, Birmingham, Essex and Thanet in Kent.
The Met Office’s outlook for Monday through Wednesday indicates: “Often cloudy with spells of rain and showers next week, though with occasional drier interludes. Hill snow is possible in the north from Wednesday. Breezy at times, with temperatures dipping.”
From 11 February, “predominantly cyclonic patterns are expected to dominate the UK” during a spell that might witness “colder conditions becoming established more widely for a time” alongside the possibility of snow.
“Milder and wetter weather may however hang on in the far south. By the end of this period, the track of Atlantic depressions may shift a little further north than during the last few weeks,” the Met Office stated in its extended weather forecast.
“This will maintain broadly unsettled weather, with further spells of rain and perhaps strong winds at times. Many parts may become somewhat milder, given more of a westerly influence, though there remains the chance that colder conditions could linger towards the northeast.”
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